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UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression

Final report! Academic Freedom and the Freedom of Opinion and Expression

This report focuses on the freedom of opinion and expression aspects of academic freedom.

New Research report! Artistic Freedom of Expression

This research report provides an overview of the human rights law framework applicable to artistic freedom of expression, highlights contemporary threat and provides recommendations for States, private actors and civil society.

Report on COVID-19 and freedom of expression

The report is written with a sense of urgency about the kinds of steps that are necessary and appropriate to protect everyone’s right to freedom of opinion and expression during this and any future pandemic.

Report on Online Hate Speech

The present report explains how international human rights standards provide a framework for Governments considering regulatory options and companies determining how to respect human rights online.

Report on the Surveillance Industry and Human Rights

This new report examines the problem of targeted surveillance and the regulation of the public-private collaboration in the sale, transfer, use and after-sales support of surveillance technologies.

Promote tolerance and diversity, speak out against hate and bigotry Statement by human rights experts on the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia – 17 May 2019

Geneva / Washington, D.C .- On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia and other forms of intolerance based on sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, and sexual characteristics (IDAHOTB), two United Nations human rights experts* and the Inter-American Commission

Mexico: One year after Ernesto Sernas García’s disappearance, UN experts denounce violence against human rights defenders in Oaxaca

Spanish GENEVA (10 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* have condemned the lack of significant progress in the investigation into the disappearance of lawyer and human rights defender Ernesto Sernas García, a year after he went missing in the

Myanmar: UN human rights experts say “terribly concerned” about press freedoms and democracy

GENEVA (8 May 2019 ) – UN human rights experts welcomed the news that convicted Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are back at home with their families in Myanmar, but expressed serious concerns about the judicial process

UN experts urge Iran to release imprisoned American scholar Xiyue Wang

GENEVA (7 May 2019) ‑ UN experts firmly request Iran to immediately release American academic Xiyue Wang, whose arbitrary detention for nearly three years was a clear violation of fundamental rights guaranteed under international law, they said. Wang, a doctoral